thanks to whoever came up with this idea

we've got this box of index cards at school where we're supposed to fill them out with game ideas and what have you. few people do it regularly and i don't know if anyone actually looks at them. but i do sometimes. and i saw this great idea.
it's a way of teaching first-letter phonics using the song "5 little ducks".
you pick 5 letters and then sing the song like this:

five little letters went out to play
under the bridge and far away
shannon said "sss sss sss sss"
and letter S came running back

it's great because the kids already know the tune to the song so it makes it easy for them to sing along.
i've started doing it this month. the first day, the kids looked at me strangely. but the second day a few of them started to sing along and now they really seem to like the song and get into it.
i'm gonna do it for at least this month and see how it goes.
Tags: esl preschool, teaching phonics

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